My LTE RE: Alert! Thank DMN for 3/9 Op-Ed on Veganism

[Guest guest]

I am sharing my LTE (below) out of solidarity with my fellow AR

activists and to hopefully stimulate others to write, as well. I will

post VegNod member's LTE on our message board whether or not DMN

publishes, if you will send to me. Thanks to all who take a few

minutes to write and speak for the animals. Margaret

 

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I thank the Dallas Morning News and Rod Dreher for his timely op-

ed " Meat to a Higher Purpose. " It is essential to the survival of our

species and the planet that we have this dialogue and resolve it

without delay. We must heed the urgent warning issued in the 2006

United Nations' study " Livestock's Long Shadow, " which irrefutably

identifies animal agriculture as the largest single contributor to

pollution and global warming.

 

However, I found Mr. Dreher's bemoaning our " moral and spiritual

lassitude and spoiled child ethic " to be disingenuous. He states he is

aware of the sin humans commit when we support the almost unimaginably

horrific abuse of animals in factory farms, which is how the vast

majority of meat is brought to market. But, he goes on to say he

will " madly " go back to eating meat on Easter, thereby ignoring the sin

we commit when we take the life of an animal, who loves life and fears

death, just as a human does.

 

To kill a sentient being simply so that one may savor the taste of its

flesh, which we euphemistically call bacon, with one's eggs is in no

way morally responsible to my mind.

 

Thank you.

Margaret Morin

Plano, Texas (submit your full name, mailing address, & day time phone

with your LTE or it won't be considered for publication).

 

, Margaret Morin

<dogs_good wrote:

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> Please thank Rod Dreher and the Dallas Morning News for the Sunday

3/9/08 op-ed on veganism.

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> DMN LTE: http://www.dallasnews.com/cgi-bin/lettertoed.cgi

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> Rod Dreher/DMN Columnist: rdreher

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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/points/stories/DN

-dreher_09edi.ART.State.Edition1.447a6ab.html

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> Rod Dreher: No meat to a higher purpose I'm madly carnivorous but am

giving up meat and dairy for Lent

> 09:26 AM CDT on Sunday, March 9, 2008